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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Waco YKC
N14137 is a Waco YKC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1934. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Elbert, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 19, 2004 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 4, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Waco
- Model
- YKC · all YKCs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Waco YKC family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 4223
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Jacobs R-755B2 · 275 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1934
- Cruising speed
- 123 mph
- Transponder code
- A0A948 (octal 50124510)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 19, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 4, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00271630
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Allen David K
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 24686 Kolstad Loop
Elbert, CO 80106-9500 - Co-owners
- Allen Jeanne M
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N14137 links to the rest of the register
- Waco YKC 10 registered
- Waco 657 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Jacobs R-755B2 19 aircraft with this engine series · 275 hp
- Elbert, CO 56 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,453 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Waco YKC 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Waco YKC 1 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N14137.json.
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The public federal record on N14137, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Allen David K, a co-owned, certificate issued November 19, 2004, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 4, 2013, 79 years after the 1934 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4223 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N14137 according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N14137: Accident on June 30, 2024 at Selden, KS: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Waco YKC · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions, which had not been forecast at the time of departure, and which resulted in a loss of control due to spatial disorientation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data